When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn’t take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there’s full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it’s just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I’m not sure how I didn’t notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

  • qqq@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    In May 2020, Framasoft published a roadmap of the software for the later half of the year and created a fundraising campaign requiring €60,000 for aiding the development.[18] Five months later (in October 2020), PeerTube announced that they reached their fundraising goal of €60,000 after a €10,000 donation from Debian.[19][20] Throughout the later half of 2020, PeerTube has added features such as global search, improved playlists, and more moderation tools

    End 2020, the meta-search engine Sepia Search was launched by Framasoft, allowing a global search on all PeerTube instances at once. As of 2021, Sepia Search covered close to 800 individual instances

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

    https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v2.3.0

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      Sepia search is a cross-instance search engine, but it was never integrated into the actual Peertube UI until recently. Which made is extremely inconvenient. Pretty sure that is what OP was talking about.

      • qqq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        If OP asked when global search was implemented the answer is 5 years ago. If they asked when SepiaSearch became the default index then sure, ChatGPT was wrong, but I’d bet they asked the first question

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          If they asked when SepiaSearch became the default URL then sure

          No one said anything about the default URL. It’s the default search engine, as opposed to only searching locally.

          I’d bet they asked the first question

          now, there’s full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere?

          Agree to disagree, I suppose.

          • qqq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            23 hours ago

            Add SepiaSearch URL as default search index

            I updated my weird wording but… you and they said something about the default [index] URL